It was perfectly easy, as I had found myself, to slip across in a gap of the pickets.
Laputa would be in a hurry, and therefore he would try to cross at the nearest point.

Hence it was Arcoll's first business to hold the line between the defile of the Letaba and the camp at Bruderstroom.

A detachment of the police who were well mounted galloped at racing speed for the defile, and behind them the rest lined out along the road.

The farmers took a line at right angles to the road, so as to prevent an escape on the western flank.

The Basutos were sent into the woods as a sort of advanced post to bring tidings of any movement there.